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Deborah Brunton trained in biology before taking a PhD in the history of medicine.

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By Deborah Brunton (The Open University)

26 May 2010

Senior lecturer Deborah Brunton turns back the clock and reveals the scientific advances 100 years ago that have helped shape the way we fight disease...  Read more : Bodies of knowledge

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By Deborah Brunton (The Open University)

26 January 2007

The Making of Modern Medicine explores the history of medical ideas and how practitioners made breakthroughs in understanding how the body worked, about the causes...  Read more : Medical Pioneers

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Brunton, Deborah (2013). Health and wellness in the 19th century. Health and Wellness. Santa Barbara: ABC Clio (In Press).

Brunton, Deborah (2008). The Politics of Vaccination: Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874. Rochester, New York: Rochester University Press.

Brunton, Deborah (2005). Evil necessaries and abominable erections: public conveniences and private interests in the Scottish city, 1830-70. Social History of Medicine, 18(2), pp. 187–202.

Brunton, Deborah (2003). The Idea of a germ: [Essay review of] 'Spreading germs: disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865–1900' by Michael Worboys. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 34(2), pp. 367–373.

Brunton, Deborah (2002). Power, policy and practice: the public response to public health in the Scottish city. In: Sturdy, Steven ed. Medicine, health and and the public sphere in Britain, 1600-2000. Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine. UK: Routledge, pp. 171–188.

Brunton, Deborah (1999). The problems of implementation: the failure and success of public vaccination against smallpox in Ireland, 1840-1873. In: Jones, Greta and Malcolm, Elizabeth eds. Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland 1650-1940. Cork: Cork University Press, pp. 138–157.

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Deborah Brunton trained in biology before taking a PhD in the history of medicine. She taught at a number of universities before joining The Open University, where she contributed to their new course Medicine and Society in Europe, 1500-1900. Her research deals with many aspects of public health, and she has published extensively on smallpox vaccination.
Deborah's current research on public health in Scotland has expanded these horizons to take in water supply, local government administration, epidemics, the economy of dung and the significance of the public lavatory.

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